1.Director Steven Spielberg got hold of an advanced copy of the 1974 novel Jaws by Peter Benchley before it was published and knew right away that he wanted to shoot it for the screen. But there was a ...
Released in 1975, Jaws is an American thrillerbased on the novel by Peter Benchley, which was released one year prior. The movie, which grossed $477.9 million worldwide on a budget of just $9 million, ...
Peter Benchley has said that his classic novel "Jaws" – which went on to inspire the summer blockbuster starring Richard Dreyfuss – was not inspired by the very real story of the 1916 shark attacks on ...